Life IS our Job
We were offered and agreed to take this job,
To travel from the land of the soul to be born on Earth. Our job came with a purpose, and so our life was given purpose.
The job we took was simply living life,
and it is very hard work!
It is work that lasts a lifetime, however long that may be.
It is guaranteed work.
It presents us with many challenges to be navigated, and problems to be solved. These challenges and problems were not given to us haphazardly, they are intimately tied to the purpose of our job and life. They could not be avoided.
In return for our effort, our job gives us many rewards, they are not always monetary rewards. Sometimes the rewards are for the soul and are given in ways the mind does not understand.
Finally, sooner or later, we are allowed to retire!
We have accomplished many things at our job of living life, and nothing is labeled good or bad. This is a time of joy, it comes with a sense of accomplishment, knowledge and wisdom from having come to Earth and lived life. Oh, there may be a brief moment of regret - of a wish to have done more or done something differently, but these feelings quickly dissolve for they are but shadows of ego.
Finally the soul, usually quite tired and ready, is taken from this hard job of life. It rejoices in a new found freedom: Now it can once again get to know itself and joyfully pursue its highest ambitions unfettered. Now it feels the deeper contentment of being back home and at peace with itself.
The job of life was a good one, and we are glad we had the privilege of working and learning so much from that job. We take all that with us into retirement, all the knowledge, wisdom, joy and pain. We are esteemed in the heavens for having gone to work on Earth and returned, and for all we have gained in this life on Earth.
In retirement we find ourselves feeling new; we are transformed and free from all material denseness, responsibility, illness, and tiredness. We remember! We remember we have a life that exists beyond the cycles of Earthly time and does not end when we retire from Earthly life. So we remember that dimension of ourselves that is free of death and we become ready to continue our journey and service to God.
To travel from the land of the soul to be born on Earth. Our job came with a purpose, and so our life was given purpose.
The job we took was simply living life,
and it is very hard work!
It is work that lasts a lifetime, however long that may be.
It is guaranteed work.
It presents us with many challenges to be navigated, and problems to be solved. These challenges and problems were not given to us haphazardly, they are intimately tied to the purpose of our job and life. They could not be avoided.
In return for our effort, our job gives us many rewards, they are not always monetary rewards. Sometimes the rewards are for the soul and are given in ways the mind does not understand.
Finally, sooner or later, we are allowed to retire!
We have accomplished many things at our job of living life, and nothing is labeled good or bad. This is a time of joy, it comes with a sense of accomplishment, knowledge and wisdom from having come to Earth and lived life. Oh, there may be a brief moment of regret - of a wish to have done more or done something differently, but these feelings quickly dissolve for they are but shadows of ego.
Finally the soul, usually quite tired and ready, is taken from this hard job of life. It rejoices in a new found freedom: Now it can once again get to know itself and joyfully pursue its highest ambitions unfettered. Now it feels the deeper contentment of being back home and at peace with itself.
The job of life was a good one, and we are glad we had the privilege of working and learning so much from that job. We take all that with us into retirement, all the knowledge, wisdom, joy and pain. We are esteemed in the heavens for having gone to work on Earth and returned, and for all we have gained in this life on Earth.
In retirement we find ourselves feeling new; we are transformed and free from all material denseness, responsibility, illness, and tiredness. We remember! We remember we have a life that exists beyond the cycles of Earthly time and does not end when we retire from Earthly life. So we remember that dimension of ourselves that is free of death and we become ready to continue our journey and service to God.
